Breast cancer screening from age 40 in the US

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BMJ

Abstract

The US Preventive Services Task Force has updated its recommendation for the age when all women should start mammography screening, lowering it from 50 to 40.1 This change immediately affects more than 20 million American women and other people assigned female at birth who are aged 40-49,2 with repercussions far beyond the US.

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q1353

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.q1353